Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. ✨ Fried…

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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, p.323, Cambridge University Press
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, p.323, Cambridge University Press

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